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Leners .Patent No. 74,889, 1aed February 25, ieee..v

l IMPROVED ANIMAL-TRAP.

ro ALL WHoM 1rY MAY coNoEnN:

'Be it known vthat I, CHARLES GAPPS, of Illiopolis, county of Sangamon, and Staterof Illinois, have invented a. new and useful Improved Animal-Trap, of which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description,

. reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a. part of` this specification, in Which- Figure 1 represents a side lelevation of my trap.

Figure 2 represents a top view f seme. Figure 3 represents a sectional elevation of same. Figure 4 represents a. top view of-tbe'trap with the cover removed. Similar letters Aindicante likeparts.; Y It consists of a horizontaldisk, A, figs. 3, 4, divided into several sections, b, g. 1, 62,64, fig. 3, and b1 o,

Vdto., iig. 4, by verticel radial partitions, c el, iig. 1, c c1 c2, Btc., fig. 4. This disk revolves with the vertical shaft e, figs. 1, 3, and-4, by the action of `the coil-spring d, gs. land 3, attnehed to the top of the shaft. Around the disk ispleced e circular metnl case, z, with wooden bottom and top, the bottom having an opening to receive the lkey to ivind up the spring al. Euch section has a separateplntform, k, fig. l, k2 c, iig. 3, l: 'c k2, dto., fig. 4, having its outer, edge resting on pivots, as seen at Z'Z, fig, 3, while-the other end is supported in an inclined position by n, spring, mz'w, iig. 3. To the 'under side of each platform is fastened a stu'dfn, iig. 1, nz n?, iig. 3, 4which striking'agninst the projection o, ig. 1, in the bottom of the case, prevents the ldisk from'revolving. A

wire cage,- R, iig's. 1 a'nd 2 is attached to the top of the case, and has an opening, s, into the casing, covered by a trap-door, o, opening upwards, and so arranged as to be directly overl the section b2, next'tb-e door zo of the case..V In each section is a hook, m2 :124, iig. 3, tohold the bait The spring being'wound up, and lthe bait fixed, the trap is ready for use. .A Y

When an animal, n rat, for instance, seeking to reach the buit, has passed completely within the case, his

hweight depressingr the platform, disengagin'g the stud, and allowing the spring d to act, the dis-k revolves, carijying with it the spring m, platform, and partitions,with the ret, until it comes beneath the opening s, when the studien the next section stops itsfurther revolution, and the rat passes into the cage R.' VThe same process is repeated with the next rat entering the section which faces the door.

In order thatthere maybe light enough to induce the rat to enter, the part of the'casi-ng opposite the door I 'is covered with a network of Wire only'. The cage R may either be arranged with a door to take the rats out,

or the cage may be taken of the casing, and the rats drowned by immersin'g it in water.

With this trap any number of animals muy be caught at one setting, the number being limited by the length of thecoil-spring, and the size ofthe cage R, and not, as in many others, by the number of revolving partitions into which'the trap is divided. By having the platform on which the animal stands revolve, there is' less lio.- bility to have the machine trigged byfsome part of the animal catching While being pushed along, as in other tra-ps, in which only the sides of the sections move, the platform being stationary.

I do not claim to be the first inventor ofthe use of u revolving disk, divided by partitions, and actuated by a spring; ont Y What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi- The combination of the disk A, sections b [J1-b2 b3 b4, platforms k-k kk, with their studs ahd springs, as shown, projection o, spiral spring d, casing L, andcageR, of an animal-trap, as und for the purpose specified.

CHARLES R. CAPPS.

Witnesses:

SAML S. BOYD, HnNnY T. CARTER. 

